Steve Kim and curated artsts.
■ Steve Kim: https://stvkm.co https://www.instagram.com/stvkmco/
■ CIVET: none
■ Francisco Galárraga: www.fj-gc.net francisco.galarraga
STEVE KIM
FRANCISCO GALARRAGA
CIVET
Steve Kim is an artist, illustrator and educator. Born in Seoul, Korea, he immigrated to the states at the age of two and currently resides in Los Angeles. He received his undergraduate degree from Art Center College of Design in 2006 and his masters from Claremont Graduate University in 2009. He has shown in Korea, Italy, London, Amsterdam, Krakow, Liechtenstein, Japan and throughout the United States and clients include The California Sunday Magazine, The Outline, FRAME, Matter/Medium, Adobe, SHOWstudio, Hohe Luft, The New Republic, Arc/New Scientist, Polygon and The Verge. His work has been featured in print in Quiet Lunch, New American Paintings, Computer Arts, Beautiful Decay, PRINT Magazine, and American Illustration and online on Dazed, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, BOOOOOOOM!, The Fox Is Black, Supersonic Art, and Tumblr's Radar. Most recently he completed residencies at Red Bull Arts Detroit and Smiling Gecko in Cambodia and currently teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.
Steve Kimはアーティスト、イラストレーター、そして教育者です。彼は韓国のソウルで生まれ、2歳の時にアメリカに移住し、現在はロサンゼルスに住んでいます。彼は2006年にArt Center College of Designで学士号を取得し、2009年にClaremont Graduate Universityで修士号を取得しました。彼は韓国、イタリア、ロンドン、アムステルダム、クラクフ、リヒテンシュタイン、日本、アメリカ全土で展示を行っており、クライアントにはThe California Sunday Magazine、The Outline、FRAME、Matter/Medium、Adobe、SHOWstudio、Hohe Luft、The New Republic、Arc/New Scientist、Polygon、The Vergeなどが含まれます。彼の作品はQuiet Lunch、New American Paintings、Computer Arts、Beautiful Decay、PRINT Magazine、American Illustrationなどの印刷物で取り上げられ、Dazed、Hi-Fructose、Juxtapoz、BOOOOOOOM！、The Fox Is Black、Supersonic Art、そしてTumblr's Radarなどのオンラインメディアでも紹介されています。最近では、Red Bull Arts DetroitとカンボジアのSmiling Geckoでレジデンシーを終え、現在はOtis College of Art and Designで教鞭をとっています。
Francisco Galarraga, was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1985, and grew up between Arizona, Iowa and Ecuador. He studied graphic design at USFQ, and received his master's degree in illustration from the School of Visual Arts (NYC) in 2015. He has spent the last five years developing a cosmopolitan, multifaceted painting style with an unmistakable visual personality. Throughout his career he has had 9 individual exhibitions and more than 40 collective ones. He distinguishes himself for being a figurative and naturalist painter, although his work focuses on oil painting, he does not stop exploring different materials and formats, such as digital painting, drawing, watercolor and printmaking. His motives are a particular selection of records from his daily life and a deep reflection on the political and social reality of Ecuador and the world. He is also a professor of printmaking at two local universities, UDLA and PUCE.
フランシスコ・ガララガは、1985年にエクアドルのキトで生まれ、アリゾナ、アイオワ、エクアドルの間で成長しました。彼はUSFQでグラフィックデザインを学び、2015年にSchool of Visual Arts（NYC）でイラストレーションの修士号を取得しました。彼は過去5年間、確かな視覚的な個性を持つ都会的で多面的な絵画スタイルを開発してきました。彼のキャリアを通じて、9回の個展と40回以上のグループ展に参加しています。彼は具象的で自然主義的な画家として際立っており、彼の作品は主に油絵に焦点を当てていますが、デジタルペインティング、ドローイング、水彩画、版画など、さまざまな素材やフォーマットを探求し続けています。彼の動機は、彼の日常生活からの特定の選択の記録と、エクアドルや世界の政治的・社会的現実に対する深い考察です。また、彼は地元の大学、UDLAとPUCEで版画の教授も務めています。
civet is a mostly self-taught hobbyist painter and drawer. Born in 1984 in Brittany, France, were I still reside. The majority of my works consist of studies of paintings masters and various references found online combined together with a blend of imagination. I am most often seeking fun and absurdity while enjoying the pleasure of spreading colours!
civetは主に独学の趣味画家であり、1984年にフランスのブルターニュで生まれ、現在もそこに住んでいます。私の作品の大部分は、絵画の巨匠たちやオンラインで見つけたさまざまな参照を研究し、想像力と組み合わせたものです。常に楽しさと不条理さを求めつつ、色を広げる喜びを味わっています
STEVE'S's works
Concept Description for "verytinybirds"
FRAICISCO's works
Concept Description for "The Nightmare"
A woman lies asleep in a room, naked and powerless of what she is dreaming. The world of dreams is aggressive and abstract, but among the chaos we clearly see a human figure, male, a possible incubus (spirit sent to torment or suffocate sleeping innocents) is sitting next to her (or is he holding her?). One of his hands seems to want to touch the shoulder of the woman. A strong light illuminates the figure of the woman from the right, and the masculine figure turns to face the source of warmth. The sun is rising, the nightmare will soon end.
CIVET's works
A&Jlac
It is based on the union of two studies of famous paintings. The man on the left comes from The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein The Younger, while the lady on the right is none other than Mona Lisa in an imagined full lenght portrait including some fun elements.
The background is being inspired by those typical gradient backgrounds sometimes used by photographers to take studio portaits of people and famillies. This, along with their natural postures, helps to reinforce the impression that both characters are well acquainted, thus brings a certain sense of peace to the image.
Two animals can be also seen in the picture. A crocodile seem to enjoy the sight of the two friends posing and a perculiar bat deploys its wings in order perhaps to impress the viewer iy is directly looking at.
A difference of styles between the realistics characters and the roughly accopmlished animals helps to maintain a certain dynamic to this image in search of equilibrium.
This artwork has been painted digitally while using the software Heavypaint.
Concept Description for "The Quill"
"Oh, nature’s noblest gift, my grey goose quill,
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from the parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men."
- Lord Byron
CIVET's works
Goya's Diner
It is based on the study of Francesco Goya's Las Brujas en el Aire.
Here three demons are devouring a man alive while floating in the air.
On the ground, a fleeting being can be seen trying to sneak under the massacre unnoticed while hiding under an optical poncho.
Due to the power of the demons, the person is still losing some substance.
At the same time he tries to navigate his way between the cactus, whose thorns represents the ordeals of life and a donkey, which in some cultures represent the ideas of silliness and stubbornness.
The demons can be seen wearing hats. They are abstract representation of dunce hats which was used in the western world schools, mostly between the XVIIth and beginning of the XXth centuries, to shame pupils that were disrupting classes.
The painting illustrates how narrow and difficult the path to make a right choice can be.
This artwork has been painted digitally while using the software Heavypaint.